Chapter 27 Who is the song "Wang Ning Mei" talking about?

In the realm of illusion, Fairy Jinghuan asked twelve dancers to sing twelve new songs for Jia Baoyu, and asked him to read the original manuscript while listening, but the songs listed in the book were not twelve but fourteen. , perhaps, is to exclude the beginning "introduction" and the final "end"?This is not too much of a doubt, the most suspicious thing is the first two songs after "Introduction", especially the second song "Wang Ning Mei". The twelve songs without the "Introduction" and "End", according to the speculation of ordinary readers, should be just for the Twelve Beauties of Jinling

Each hairpin arranges a song separately, but after careful reading of the twelve songs, it is found that from the third song onwards, a song summarizes a person's destiny, which are Yuanchun, Tanchun, Shi Xiangyun, Miaoyu, Yingchun, Xichun, Wang Xifeng, Qiao Sister, Li Wan, Qin Keqing.The first song "Lifetime Mistakes" is generally considered to be a combination of Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, and it is chanted in Jia Baoyu's tone. Whether it must be understood in this way is actually still room for discussion, but I think this understanding is generally It's passable.The second song "Wang Ning Mei" is also chanted in Jia Baoyu's tone:

One is Langyuan fairy flower, and the other is beautiful jade flawless.If there is no romance, he will meet him again in this life; if there is a romance, how will the truth end?One is lamenting in vain, the other is worrying in vain; one is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror.Think about how many teardrops there are in my eyes, how can autumn flow to the end of winter, and spring flow to summer. If this song is removed, Twelve Hairpins are also involved, so why not arrange this song?The annotated version of the Institute of Dream of Red Mansions of the Chinese Academy of Arts (the second edition of People's Literature Publishing House in December 1996) is as follows:

The title of the song means sorrow in vain.The song starts from Bao Dai's love and shatters in an accident, and writes about Lin Daiyu's tragic fate of dying of tears.Langyuan fairy flower: refers to Lin Daiyu.Langyuan: fairy garden; fairy flower: fairy flower.Beautiful jade flawless: refers to Jia Baoyu. It seems to make sense at first glance, but after careful scrutiny, the problem comes.Tears can of course be associated with Lin Daiyu, but the whole book is "full of absurd words, full of bitter tears", so it cannot be judged from the "teardrops" that it is only about Lin Daiyu.In the third chapter, Daiyu went to Beijing to see Jia Baoyu in Rongguo Mansion. It was already mid-winter. "Tears" should start this winter, not autumn. Does "Langyuan Fairy Flower" refer to Lin Daiyu?In the first chapter, it was explained that "on the bank of the Sansheng Stone on the bank of the Ling River in the west, there is a plant of crimson bead grass", which is Lin Daiyu's true form in the heaven; Yu Xianhua is a fairy flower.Although Jia Baoyu was born with the title of jade, but the second time he appeared on the stage, there are two lines summarizing his disposition, "Behavior is eccentric and perverted, so why do people slander?" ” was never his “code.”Therefore, I thought the above comment was wrong.

If understood according to the above annotations, then among the twelve pieces, Lin Daiyu has already sung with Xue Baochai in the first piece, and this second piece sings her again. Although she is an important role, this arrangement seems to be lacking in layout. balanced. I once wrote the article "Four Immortals in the Illusory Realm of Taixu", and analyzed the names of the four immortals introduced to Jia Baoyu by the Jinghuan Immortals in the fifth episode. The above marks respectively the four women who have given great influence to Jia Baoyu in his life, and their corresponding relationships are: Immortal Lady of Dreaming——Lin Daiyu; Jade.Based on this way of thinking, it can be realized that among the twelve songs, those who are eligible to be sung together should also be these four women. "Lifetime Mistakes" is a chorus of Lin and Xue Erchai, and "Wang Ning Mei" is a chorus of Shi and Miao Erchai.

"One is the fairy flower of Langyuan", which clearly refers to Shi Xiangyun. "All the scenery in the sky and the world", "Who believes that there is such a place in the world", "Fairyland, farewell to the world of mortals", it is very appropriate to compare the Grand View Garden to "Langyuan"; and in the description of the courtyard later named Yihong Courtyard In the book, Cao Xueqin solemnly wrote about Xifu Begonia: It is like an umbrella, with green strands hanging from its threads, and dandelion spewing out from its flowers.We all know that when Li uses flowers to describe people, he always compares Shi Xiangyun to crabapple flowers. In the sixty-third chapter "Shouyi Hongqunfang Opens a Night Banquet", everyone draws flower sticks, and the one drawn by Xiangyun has a crabapple painted on it, with the inscription On the other side of the signature is a poem: "I'm afraid that the flowers will fall asleep late at night." We all know that Xiangyun's girl is named Cuilu. "Langyuan Fairy Flower", which is "hanging green strands and spouting red sand", can only be used to describe Shi Xiangyun and cannot be used to describe Lin Daiyu.

"One is beautiful jade flawless", this clearly refers to Miaoyu.There are quite a lot of "jade" in it. In the twenty-seventh time, Sister Feng asked Hongyu's name. After she answered, Sister Feng frowned, turned her head back and said, "It's very annoying! It's like getting the benefits of jade. You also have jade, and I also have jade." Among all the "jades" in the book, only Miaoyu is said to be "beautiful and flawless".In the album pages that Jia Baoyu peeked at in the illusionary realm, Miaoyu's page "painted a piece of beautiful jade, which fell into the mud". Saying that Miaoyu was "flawless white jade trapped in mud" at the end is the same as pointing out Shi Xiangyun's "silk hanging green strands, flower spouting red sand", so clearly pointing out Miaoyu as "beautiful jade without flaws", what reason do we have? Do you insist that it refers to Jia Baoyu?

So, what kind of character relationship and destiny trajectory does this "Wang Ning Mei" song imply?Break it apart: Jia Baoyu's chant about Shi Xiangyun, the "Langyuan Fairy Flower", is: If there is no romance, I will meet him again in this life (contemporary young readers should know that the word "she" was only created during the "New Culture Movement" at the beginning of last century. Chinese characters, the third person pronouns of male and female were all written as "he" before); one is in vain, the other is the moon in the water...

Jia Baoyu's chant for Miaoyu, who is "beautiful and flawless", is: If there is a romance, how can the heart be emptied?An idle worry.One is the flower in the mirror... The combined exclamation: how many teardrops can there be in the eyes, how can it flow from autumn to winter, and from spring to summer! Based on the hints of the lines in the first 80 chapters of the book, Zhi Yanzhai's comments, and the results of "Hong Xue" exploration, it is not difficult to make a thorough interpretation of this song. After the eighty chapters, the Jia family fell into complete decline. Jia Baoyu was imprisoned for a while, and later wandered in the south of the Yangtze River.

Shi Xiangyun reunited and became husband and wife.In the first eighty chapters, we can see that the family and friendship between Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun are very strong, but there seems to be no fate between them, so once they meet and marry in distress, it is inevitable that "if there is no romance, "I've met him again in this life"; it's like "crossing the cold pond with the shadow of a crane", which can be called the realm of "the moon in the water" - the beautiful past is all a phantom, and what we are facing is an extremely sinister and tragic reality .Of course, this is only approximate.In fact, in the first eighty chapters, in addition to the hidden hints in the song "Wang Ning Mei", the thirty-first chapter "Because of the Qilin Fu Baishou Double Star" is also likely to imply that Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun will finally "grow old together": Shi Xiangyun The golden unicorn of Wei Ruolan was originally a pair with the golden unicorn of Wei Ruolan, the grandson of the prince, and they did have a marriage, but in the end Wei Ruolan's golden unicorn was transferred to Jia Baoyu, and they finally got married "because of the unicorn" Yes, it is Baoxiang and not others—but this hint is too vague in the first eighty chapters, so it needs to be discussed in another article to be confirmed.

After eighty chapters, Miaoyu's experience is definitely not what Gao E wrote in the sequel.According to Cao Xueqin's idea, Jia Baoyu will meet Miaoyu at Guazhou Ferry after eighty chapters, and Miaoyu will facilitate his reunion with Xiangyun.Jia Baoyu has always valued Miaoyu and cherished the tacit understanding between Miaoyu and himself, but in the end Miaoyu fought tenaciously under the persecution of evil forces and died together, which made Jia Baoyu can't help thinking "If there is a romance, how can the heart be emptied" He sighed so much that he was "concerned about her in vain" and could not save her. That beautiful image, like a flower in a mirror, is praiseworthy but cannot be touched.In addition, it is worth noting that in Yong Miaoyu's album "The World Can't Tolerate", the last line is: "Why bother, Wang Sun Gongzi sighs for no fate!" Many people understand "Wang Sun Gongzi" as Jia Baoyu, which seems to be Miaoyu Later, he fought against the evil forces to the end and died together, which made Jia Baoyu lose his love and lamented that he could not marry Miaoyu.In fact, in the fourteenth chapter, it is written about the people who participated in the funeral, and there is such a clear text: "...the rest are Han Qi, the uncle of Jinxiang, Feng Ziying, the son of General Shenwu, Chen Yejun, Wei Ruolan and other grandsons", Feng Ziying In the first 80 chapters, there were quite a few scenes. Wei Ruolan was solemnly mentioned in Zhiyanzhai’s comments because of the golden unicorn. Considering that Cao Xueqin mentioned Shi Xiangyun and Miaoyu together several times when writing, he “sighed that Miaoyu had no chance.” "The young master is probably Chen Yejun (note: his ranking is still ahead of Wei Ruolan, this is by no means a random name), but because the original version was lost after eighty chapters, it is difficult for us to verify the information about Miaoyu. It's just the details of the secret relationship with Chen Yejun. In the seventy-ninth chapter, Jia Baoyu recited the sentence "the pond was cold overnight in autumn", which shows that the great tragedy that started after the eightyth chapter started in autumn. At the end of winter, spring flows to summer", which means that what was written after the eighty chapters was exactly a year under such a time sequence, and in the autumn of that year, there were no tears, and the whole thing was " The chilling scene of a piece of white land is so clean".